Rush Hour

Miles Davis and William Russo are guests at the Friday rush hour programming of the Concertzender. Where classic music accelerates, jazz passes from the right, string quartets get in lane and where the big bands join or leave the traffic.

 William Russo – Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra, op.50 (1968)

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa, conductor
Siegel-Schwall Band
Stuart Canin, violin
Corky Siegel, harmonica, electric piano
Jim Schwall, guitar
Rollo Radford, double bass
Shelly Plotkin, percussion
CD: Deutsche Grammophon 463-665-2 (2002)

 J.Rodrigo/arr. Gil Evans – Concierto de Aranjuez (adagio)

 Traditional/arr. Gil Evans – Solea

Miles Davis, trumpet and bugle
Gil Evans, conductor and arranger
Columbia studio-orchestra
CD: Sketches of Spain – Columbia CK-65142 (1997)